Dulles, while he was on the
Warren Commission, considered using to write incriminating
articles about Oswald (Peter Scott, Deep Politics and the Death
of JFK p. 55). Later on, de Toledano found a home at former CIA
officer and E. Howard Hunt pal Bill Buckley's National Review. If
one were to translate the Summers trio of Slatzer, Carmen, and de
Toledano to the JFK case, one could say that he wedded Ricky
White to Beverly Oliver and then brought in a journalist like,
say Hugh Aynesworth, to cinch his case. And the things Summers
leaves out are as important as what he puts in. For instance, he
omits the facts that her psychiatrist did not know the drugs that
her internist was prescribing; the weird nature and background of
her house servant Eunice Murray; and her pending reconciliation
with Joe DiMaggio which, of course, makes her "torrid romance"
with Bobby even more incredible. The reconciliation makes less
credible Summers' portrait of an extremely neurotic Monroe, which
he needs in order to float the possibility that she was going to
"broadcast" her relationship with the Kennedys.
Summers' book attracted the attention of Geraldo Rivera at ABC's
20/20. Rivera and his cohort Sylvia Chase bought into Goddess
about as willingly as Summers bought Slatzer. They began filing a
segment for the news magazine. But as the segment began to go
through the editors, objections and reservations were expressed.
Finally, Roone Arledge, head of the division at the time, vetoed
it by saying it was, "A sleazy piece of journalism" and "gossip-
column stuff" (Summers p. 422). Liz Smith, queen of those gossip-
columnists, pilloried ABC for censoring the "truth about 1962."
Rivera either quit or was shoved out by ABC over the controversy.
Arledge was accused by Chase of "protecting the Kennedys"